tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post8380480138650151703..comments2015-03-03T13:14:36.757-06:00Comments on Althouse: Did Ted Cruz bully Chuck Hagel?Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-62388686758055963842013-02-01T20:38:53.136-06:002013-02-01T20:38:53.136-06:00Obama&#39;s first term administration was full of ...Obama&#39;s first term administration was full of second-raters.<br /><br />Now its the third-raters turn, evidently.<br /><br />I think an executive is judged best on the talent he recruits. And at that, Obama confirms my opinion that he&#39;s an incompetent.Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10424218376882403880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-73116822005574981832013-02-01T14:09:04.195-06:002013-02-01T14:09:04.195-06:00Cruz also took the “sickening slaughter” quote out...<i>Cruz also took the “sickening slaughter” quote out of context – he actually attacked “sickening slaughter on both sides,” acknowledging the role of Hezbollah rockets in triggering and then escalating the ugly conflict.</i><br /><br />Actually, no. Another law professor destroys the above opinion:<br /><br /><i>Cruz’s line of inquiry was not “bogus.” Israel went far out of its way to avoid civilian casualties and probably cost itself a military victory because of that, while Hezbollah fired rockets into civilian area for the purpose of hurting civilians. That’s not a “bogus” distinction, it’s the core of Hagel’s misaligned view of the Middle East.</i><br /><br />Read the entire post at:<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/b9fty37gracklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18138997480493469444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-27910864145048426092013-02-01T12:56:22.294-06:002013-02-01T12:56:22.294-06:00The one vote I cast November 6th that ended well w...The one vote I cast November 6th that ended well was for Senator Cruz, and thus far it looks like it&#39;s working out. Thank you, Senator Cruz. roadgeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13985694933198646578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-42043026534845398182013-02-01T12:54:08.429-06:002013-02-01T12:54:08.429-06:00I did not know that Mr. roesch/voltaire was a Jew ...I did not know that Mr. roesch/voltaire was a Jew baiter.<br /><br />Typical liberal.Baron Zemohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17301531733692419610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-79210558489501558062013-02-01T11:46:03.987-06:002013-02-01T11:46:03.987-06:00Did Ted Cruz bully Chuck Hagel?
No, but effective...Did Ted Cruz bully Chuck Hagel?<br /><br />No, but effective questioning of a witness by a Senator is so incredibly rare that people don&#39;t know what to call it. People who find it illuminating call it &quot;effective questioning&quot; and people who find it unhelpful to their dear leader&#39;s goals call it &quot;bullying.&quot;Amartelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11636450794507517534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-88529783774935008652013-02-01T11:06:35.136-06:002013-02-01T11:06:35.136-06:00he actually attacked “sickening slaughter on both ...<i> he actually attacked “sickening slaughter on both sides,”</i><br /><br />Your (and Hagel&#39;s) false equivalency doesn&#39;t help, RV. To paint Israel&#39;s conspicuous restraint in the conflict with Hezbollah&#39;s intentional terrorist targeting of civilians was despicable. Calypso Factohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01455217189407301218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-32374652776130410132013-02-01T10:58:15.843-06:002013-02-01T10:58:15.843-06:00Cruz also took the “sickening slaughter” quote out...Cruz also took the “sickening slaughter” quote out of context – he actually attacked “sickening slaughter on both sides,” acknowledging the role of Hezbollah rockets in triggering and then escalating the ugly conflict. (I believe it was the League of Nations confirmed the British Mandate, and the UN in 1947 helped to create a Jewish State and an independent Arab State--Andrew so your statement needs a bit of historical content)<br />roesch/voltairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09943026999545809312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-49978252688541502122013-02-01T10:43:20.357-06:002013-02-01T10:43:20.357-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Alec Plumbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11420549378204798455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-71051452970757158762013-02-01T09:29:42.191-06:002013-02-01T09:29:42.191-06:00of course Weigel is the guy who pretended to be a ...of course Weigel is the guy who pretended to be a libertarian while calling the Tea Party ratfucking teabaggers on Journolist, so who are you gonna believe, your lying eyes or the pimply faced Weigel?Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12133279828547003387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-25250479926624386732013-02-01T09:24:24.727-06:002013-02-01T09:24:24.727-06:00Cruz is bright and he knows he is lying about Hage...<i>Cruz is bright and he knows he is lying about Hagel but he wants to keep the Christian Zionism trop</i><br /><br />Oh no! It&#39;s the Jewish-Christian cabal!<br /><br />And thsy&#39;ve taken over Texas!Saint Croixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17876368500159112781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-19679481012392792142013-02-01T08:51:11.785-06:002013-02-01T08:51:11.785-06:00Ah, yes. International Law, as promulgated by a wo...Ah, yes. International Law, as promulgated by a world assembly. Which has always been such a comfort to the Jews.Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05580109076500721062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-13799824669418988552013-02-01T08:08:47.937-06:002013-02-01T08:08:47.937-06:00Cruz is bright and he knows he is lying about Hage...Cruz is bright and he knows he is lying about Hagel but he wants to keep the Christian Zionism trop that any criticism of Israeli is wrong-- ironically the UN on this day stated, what many others believe: the settlements in the West Bank violates international law.roesch/voltairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09943026999545809312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-48433939500180910622013-02-01T08:07:07.889-06:002013-02-01T08:07:07.889-06:00Professor, it isn&#39;t about what &quot;we&quot; ...Professor, it isn&#39;t about what &quot;we&quot; need; it&#39;s about what Obama needs for what he has in mind.Hagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653025261513705773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-22548899317223552492013-02-01T07:49:59.567-06:002013-02-01T07:49:59.567-06:00This looks to be the least memorable cabinet ever....This looks to be the least memorable cabinet ever. It&#39;s the amateur hour that never ends.<br /><br />Look at this list:<br /><br />Cheney<br />Aspin<br />Perry<br />Cohen<br />Rumsfeld<br />Gates<br />Panetta<br />Hagel?<br /><br />Sure, some of these guys are forgettable (Cohen), but nobody ever knocked the smarts of Cheney, Rumsfeld, or Gates. But Hagel?<br /><br />The story gets worse. Look at this list:<br /><br />Baker<br />Eagleburger<br />Christopher<br />Albright<br />Powell<br />Rice<br />Clinton<br />Kerry<br /><br />Start with Baker whose brilliance and administrative capacity is inarguable. Follow him up with five career foreign-affairs professionals.<br /><br />Then you get Clinton.<br /><br />Then, as if to make Clinton look good, you get Kerry.Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14520113896946845614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-77444957241811221672013-02-01T07:32:20.017-06:002013-02-01T07:32:20.017-06:00&quot;I&#39;m inclined to think the President dese...<i>&quot;I&#39;m inclined to think the President deserves the Cabinet he chooses...&quot;</i><br /><br />Maybe it&#39;s not about what he deserves.McGeheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04226894278683216499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-84113694441317133042013-02-01T07:13:06.857-06:002013-02-01T07:13:06.857-06:00Dems should be scared of this guy. Really scared. ...<i>Dems should be scared of this guy. Really scared. Even if he weren&#39;t Hispanic, which he is.</i><br /><br />They are frightened for sure – the obligatory and inevitable destruction campaign commenced on Morning Joe apace this AM. Joe Scarborough and Mika was VERY upset at the &quot;disrespect&quot; shown Hagel by Cruz. Others on the panel/echo chamber followed suit. <br /><br /><i>Ted Crux certainly did bully Hagel. The way he took the quote so completely out-of-context is wrong and un-American and wrong and shameful and wrong.</i><br /><br />One wonders if the commentor watched the hearings. I did and Cruz took great pains to provide the context of each quote. Hagel has the same outdated habit of many political figures - of modifying their utterances to fit the audience. They used to be able to get away with it but these days modern technology trips them up. <br /><br /><i>I was a bit surprised as to how stumbling Hagel came across. Is he on some medication?</i><br /><br />I think what we saw in Hagel was a valiant and largely successful attempt to curb his temper. The sputtering and halting response to the embarrassing questions was the outward manifestation of barely controlled rage. He is rich, connected, surrounded by fawning yea-sayers and he is definitely NOT one of the little people. Hagel is not used to his rather stupid public record being displayed for public scrutiny.<br /><br /><i>Hagel was chosen so Obama can gut the military and leave GOP fingerprints.</i><br /><br />Yep.gracklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18138997480493469444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-11130487696438848712013-02-01T06:34:31.668-06:002013-02-01T06:34:31.668-06:00Face it, Obama doesn&#39;t want DoD to be an effec...Face it, Obama doesn&#39;t want DoD to be an effective Defense for America.<br /><br />Of the possible folks that Obama could chose? Flournoy, Powell, Shinseki. (e.g. send Hagel to DVA to ditter there)<br /><br /><br /><br />The Drill SGThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01334820550104925051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-34267996997861189602013-02-01T06:05:56.994-06:002013-02-01T06:05:56.994-06:00It&#39;s only bullying when Republicans do it.It&#39;s only bullying when Republicans do it.AllenShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08848966772462502893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-59812653498286081602013-02-01T05:58:23.176-06:002013-02-01T05:58:23.176-06:00Hagel was chosen so Obama can gut the military and...Hagel was chosen so Obama can gut the military and leave GOP fingerprints.HAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08305118898268567937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-14209327093245938132013-02-01T04:47:47.644-06:002013-02-01T04:47:47.644-06:00I think that Obama is getting just the sort of Sec...I think that Obama is getting just the sort of SecDef that he wants. He wants to significantly downsize our military so that all that money can be spent on social causes. He wants to downgrade our position as a superpower because that is what his father would have wanted of the Great Imperialist. And, he wants to greatly cut our nuclear arsenal. Hagel has long backed all of these. <br /><br />I think that we saw a lot of this over the last couple of years, esp. in some less guarded moments by Obama. Remember the famous aside to the Russians that he would have more flexibility his second term? That was, I would suggest, a strong hint that he would be a lot more aggressive in disarming America when he no longer needed to worry about reelection. And, yes, he has repeatedly said that he wanted to greatly reduce our nuclear arsenal. <br /><br />In other words, I am suggesting that Obama picked Hagel because he has long espoused what Obama really wants done at DoD during his second term. Bruce Haydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10815293023158025662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-31783786146801879172013-02-01T03:32:13.224-06:002013-02-01T03:32:13.224-06:00in light if this hearing disaster, how can you not...in light if this hearing disaster, how can you not think that it is hagel who is actually destroying hagel?<br /><br />the president is entitled to his own cabinet, but the hearings and vote are accountability ... for what?Abu Yossihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07486745996622081281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-89328015832644298872013-02-01T00:56:48.899-06:002013-02-01T00:56:48.899-06:00It would be kind of nice to see my grandchildren g... It would be kind of nice to see my grandchildren grow up the kind of strong America in which I grew up. This guy and the collection of thieves and drones in the other cabinet positions won&#39;t do it.<br /><br /> Mind you I&#39;m not too impressed with Washington Republican, either. My Senator, Cruz, has not been up there long enough to be infected. Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328124105257667842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-71314225311521004382013-01-31T23:21:56.195-06:002013-01-31T23:21:56.195-06:00You have to understand the goals before any of the...You have to understand the goals before any of the policies or personnel make sense. <br /><br />Crash the system. <br /><br />There, now you know.<br />TmjUtahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479506083401061662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-55955663295151174262013-01-31T23:17:34.700-06:002013-01-31T23:17:34.700-06:00I think the President is having to scrape the bott...I think the President is having to scrape the bottom of the next barrel down to find any breathing politico that doesn&#39;t make him look like the empty suit that he is. <br /><br />Just an opinion, mind you. <br /><br />This administration&#39;s personnel roster? <br /><br />Didn&#39;t anybody watch Major League? <br /><br />Bottom of the standings, full speed ahead!<br />TmjUtahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479506083401061662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-81992909687937336652013-01-31T23:09:10.917-06:002013-01-31T23:09:10.917-06:00Obama clearly nominated an outside-the-box guy bec...<i>Obama clearly nominated an outside-the-box guy because he wants the military to do other than it has been doing. Sensible, since it has been doing nothing but failing</i><br /><br />I&#39;m guessing that you are forgetting who has been in charge for the last 4 years. So, now Obama wants the military to do something other than what he wanted the military to do since 2008?<br /><br />Is he attempting to recover from Bush failures, as you say, or his own?Brew Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07568809558055900016noreply@blogger.com